Ice Loss from Greenland and Antarctica was 11.3 Trillion Tonnes Over Last 5 Decades: New Science Paper

Over the years, many scientific groups around the planet have published peer-reviewed papers on how much ice loss has occurred from the large ice sheets at the poles.

This new study, published just a couple of weeks ago, basically examines all of these studies and puts together the bottom line for our present scientific knowledge on Greenland and Antarctic ice loss. 42 independent studies were assessed from many different types of satellites.

Total loss is 11.3 trillion tons
Most is from Greenland.
84% of the loss is from moving ice (dynamical loss) calving into the oceans.
16% of the loss is from the surface.

Science marches onwards, as does accelerating climate change.
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References and Links:

University of Bologna article:
Over the last fifty years, Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice --
This is shown by an analysis based on the longest series of satellite observations ever produced: the loss of ice has raised the global average sea level by more than three centimeters
https://magazine.unibo.it/en/articles/over-the-last-fifty-years-greenland-and-antarctica-have-lost-11-3-trillion-tonnes-of-ice

Google search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mass+balance+of+the+greenland+and+antarctic+ice+sheets+from+the+1970s+to+2023&oq=Mass+balance+of+the+Greenland+and%0AAntarctic+ice+sheets+from+the+1970s%0Ato+2023&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyBggBEEUYPTIGCAIQRRg9MgYIAxBFGD3SAQkzMTMwajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBWar0YdTD2y58QVmq9GHUw9suQ&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.rb&ie=UTF-8

Peer-reviewed scientific paper in Nature journal:
Title: Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023

Abstract
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are major drivers of global mean sea level rise and are predicted to continue to do so in the future. However, they also represent the largest source of uncertainty in projections of future sea level rise making robust estimates of observed ice sheet mass changes critical. Here, we compare and combine 42 independent estimates of ice sheet mass balance derived from satellite observations of temporal changes in ice sheet flow, volume, and gravitational attraction to determine the ice sheet mass balance from 1972 (Greenland) and 1979 (Antarctica) until 2023. We then use regional climate models to partition the total mass balance into contributions associated with surface mass balance and ice dynamical imbalance. The ice sheets lost 11,309 ± 565 billion tonnes of ice between 1979 and 2023, with glacier dynamical imbalance driving 84% of the ice loss and surface mass balance the remainder. This dataset can be used to track the contribution of the ice sheets to sea level rise and constrain projections of future sea level rise.

Link to paper (open-source, free access)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-08088-0?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=null&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_PCOM_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

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We are doomed 😢

Thank you for your hard work.

We are doomed. Sorry, Newton and Rabbit. 😢

One of the reasons I required at least 150 ft in elevation when buying a new house. A whole shitstorm of problems are coming whether I like it or not, but at least storm surges won’t be one of them in my lifetime.

No biggy, but you've inadvertently mis-titled this video.  The paper is about ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica, not Greenland and Iceland.

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Thanks for all the updates. Take care man

In 1999 I was taking geology in college,  my professor had been going to green land for years at that point, and he said: you can see the ice retreating, how can you say the earth isn't warming?

1.13 x 10^13.  That’s a lot if I remember correctly.

Is it really a lot of ice? 3cm sea rise in 50 years does not look like much.

Fyi: YT channel Critical Latitude got 1M views for recent AMOC collapse post - FINALLY! Starting to get SOME notice by ‘the masses’… this follows similar posts on other major outlets though they slant towards skepticism. Gore recently was quoted reminding us how ALL trends and analysis presented in An Inconvenient Truth have, subsequently, ALL been documented